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Title: A Wild Justice
Subtitle: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
Author: Evan J. Mandery
Narrator: Jones Allen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.
Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history.
For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgias death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia.
Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction.
A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time.
